GRE Word List
PANACEA
a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all
The meaning of the word panacea is a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| pore | to gaze intently |